4 Ups & 5 Downs From WWE SmackDown (6 June - Results & Review)

3. Ice Cold With An Obvious DQ Coming

Again, the clear thread running throughout SmackDown was that Seth Rollins wanted his group to eliminate rivals in the MITB ladder match. Rollins, Bron Breakker and Bronson Reed went after everyone they could think of, including LA Knight. Somehow, it was obvious before Knight vs. Aleister Black had even started that neither man would take a decisive fall.

This one had double countout or run-in and disqualification written all over it.

Technically, LA got the win when Seth stomped him, but there were bigger problems that a blatant non-finish. The match only started kicking into gear for the final minute or so, and it wasn’t actually a fun watch before that. Yeah, who else is worried for Black? Thus far, his WWE return has been more of the same treading water stuff he was doing before jumping to AEW the several years ago.

Is this his fate? To be a middle of the road, functional member of the roster who's never crap but never properly shines either? If so, then it's only a matter of time before creative moves onto other wrestlers and he dwindles into the tag ranks because they've got nothing else for him. Hopefully not, but panic stations are on high alert.

Black's bout vs. Knight was ice cold, man. One had to check that Glacier wasn't in the building on SmackDown, or Chilly McFreeze. It sucks that such talented workers like LA Knight and Aleister are reduced to going through the motions. Longer episodes and more ring time was supposed to help some of these guys!